In
the 2010 growing season Monsanto
plans to unleash its latest Frankenfood experiment on the American
and Canadian public, a new version of genetically mutated corn with
eight abnormal gene traits called Genuity SmartStax corn. It is the
culmination of an astonishing scandal that has been steadily building
over the past decade. During this time Monsanto’s mutated seeds
have grown to 90% of the U.S. soy crop and 85% of the corn crop –
and wheat is next on their agenda. Their efforts have been marked by
corporate bullying and have drawn the attention of the Justice Department
who is conducting an antitrust investigation. All the while they have
been spending millions on lobbying to fast track their agenda before
the American public even realizes what hit them. Monsanto is making
an ominous power play to corner the worldwide market on food and seeds.
In the process they are adversely altering the very nature of food itself.

Few
people would eat Monsanto’s “food” if they understood
what it was or knew that they were eating it. President Obama and his
family won’t eat it. Neither did the Bush family. Even a Monsanto
employee cafeteria rejects it. This is no laughing matter. Your health
and the health of your children and grandchildren are at stake. It seems
more like a scene from a horror flick than something happening in modern
day America. Imagine your digestive tract turned into a Roundup Ready
herbicide factory and other warped genetic signals slowly and progressively
rotting away your health. Unlike acute food poisoning from infectious
E.coli, it is a slow and insidious poisoning.

Why
GMO Food is Dangerous

Monsanto’s
GMO (genetically modified organism) technology inserts non-food genes,
genes from other species, into the DNA of food, altering
the very nature of food itself. In some cases these genes make the
crops more tolerant to the Roundup Ready herbicide made by Monsanto
and in other cases the genes abnormally cause the DNA of food cells
to produce toxic proteins that act as pesticides.

Most
people are not comfortable with the concept of altering the nature of
food in a grand genetic experiment with unknown consequences. The idea
of food producing its own internal toxin is equally abhorrent. After
all, who wants to eat toxic food? Even fewer trust this technology in
the hands of Monsanto, a company with a history of blatant disregard
for human health. It was Monsanto that knowingly poisoned the planet
with toxic PCBs.

The
process of making GMO seeds also poses health risks. Viral promoter
genes are used during this production process and become part of the
DNA mix, posing a risk for new types of viral disease. An unintended
side-effect of this production technology is chronic activation or suppression
of normal genes in the modified plants. This alters the actual nutrient
structure of food and the function of the proteins within that food
– a very serious matter.

The
entire process of producing GMO seeds is also unpredictable. It creates
multiple random genetic events in every food cell invaded by the mutant
genes. Because each gene doesn’t just do one thing and is highly
interactive with other genes, the production of GMO food is not consistent
and therefore safety cannot be guaranteed – especially when you
understand that our scientific knowledge of gene interdependencies is
in its infancy.

Eating
food that is mutated by other non-food species is a grand experiment
to say the least. GMO mutants can transfer to the living bacteria in
your digestive tract, as has been shown in animal experiments. This
can adversely change the way your gut bacteria behave so that they create
pesticides and become more resistant to your immune system and medical
treatments. If the GMO mutants were to transfer to an existing infection
in your digestive tract then it could create your own superbug.

Because
the proteins in GMO food are structurally different than normal food
they significantly increase the risk for allergy. Allergy is one form
of inflammation that is likely to result from GMO food, but there are
many other potential sources. These include the mis-metabolism of the
food, the inherent toxicity of the food, and the pesticide residues
on the food. These inflammatory problems of GMO food will additively
contribute to other forms of inflammation such as pollution and stress
and add to the total inflammation burden sets the stage for many diseases.
It is likely that GMO food will have a significant impact on pregnancy
problems and developmental problems in children. At this time nobody
can rule out GMO as a possible causative factor in Autism, as the rates
of both have risen together. A recent re-evaluation of data provided
by Monsanto showed that various types of GMO corn caused significant
inflammatory organ damage to rats.

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It
has now been shown that the health consequence of eating high amounts
of Roundup Ready residue that is being sprayed in ever-higher amounts
on GMO crops is the disruption of your endocrine system. A recent study
shows that these residues of Roundup Ready are highly interactive with
sex hormones and significantly disrupt their function.

A
2008 Austrian government study showed that feeding GMO corn to mice
for multiple generations resulted in fertility issues and weakened kidneys,
as well as changes in metabolic pathways involved with inflammation,
cholesterol, and protein. Here is a link to the 105 page report.

GMO
crops are also drastically and adversely altering soil quality. In fact,
soil animals such as earthworms are now found to have incorporated GMO
mutant corn genes into their cells. This finding is of extreme importance
to potential human health problems. There is certainly nothing preventing
this from happening to humans.

You
may be wondering the obvious; if GMOs are so dangerous to eat then why
are they allowed in the food supply?

Corporate
Cronyism - A Corrupt FDA Places the Public in Danger

We
now know that FDA scientists originally working on the issue of the
safety of GMO food had considerable
concerns that included allergies, toxins, adverse nutritional effects,
and new diseases. They urged long-term studies but were ignored by FDA
management who instead decided that GMO food was “substantially
equivalent” to normal food. In 1992 these managers issued the
following policy statement in the Federal Register, “The agency
is not aware of any information showing that foods derived by these
new methods differ from other foods in any meaningful or uniform way.”
In retrospect, that policy, which stands to this day, was a flat out
lie and a treasonous betrayal of the public trust.

Court
cases have forced into public view the documents expressing the concerns
of the FDA scientists. You can read them all at this link to the BioIntegrity.Org
website. In fact, rushing GMO foods to market also represents a serious
breach of scientific
integrity by the overall research community.

Today,
the FDA is a world leader in proteomic technology, the advanced analysis
of protein structure and function. Italian
researchers using proteomics have already proven beyond any question
that GMO food is so genetically different from normal food that it cannot
possibly be considered substantially equivalent. Certainly the FDA could
discover this fact for themselves in a matter of hours. Why are FDA
scientists in handcuffs and not taking action?

Part
of the FDA management team’s culture of corruption is a revolving
door with the various companies they are supposed to be regulating,
the very definition of corporate cronyism. These shenanigans have had
the net effect of the FDA acting primarily as a police force bully representing
various powerful lobbies that buy protection and marketing favors, while
stomping on the rights of the little guys like organic family farms
and consumers. In the case of food, Monsanto wins the gold medal for
influence pedaling at the expense of human health.

One
of the more egregious examples of cronyism is Michael Taylor. He was
an FDA staff lawyer and Executive Assistant to the FDA Commissioner
from 1976 to 1981. From 1981 to 1991 he worked at the law firm of King
and Spaulding, acting as Monsanto’s lawyer and lobbyist. He was
a major proponent for overturning the Delaney Clause, a 1958 law prohibiting
the introduction of known carcinogens to processed foods, a law Monsanto
hated and which was eventually overturned by Clinton in 1996. His main
responsibility during this time was gaining regulatory approval of Monsanto’s
genetically modified cancer-causing bovine growth hormone (rBGH).

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To
complete his efforts on the bovine growth hormone issue Taylor went
back to work for the FDA in 1991 with the title Deputy Commissioner
for Policy at the Food and Drug Administration. He was directly responsible
for writing the FDA policy on “substantial equivalence”
which initially ushered in the rBGH era and to this day enables Monsanto
to market its GMO mutated food with no appropriate oversight by the
FDA as to safety. He also formulated policy that prevented milk producers
from informing consumers that their milk was free of bovine growth hormone
– intentionally preventing consumers from being able to tell what
was in the milk product they were consuming.

After
accomplishing his dirty work, he left the FDA in 1994 and went to work
for Monsanto as Vice President for Public Policy, working on Monsanto’s
long range plans. More recently, he became a Senior Fellow at Resources
for the Future (RFF) and Director of the Risk, Resources and Environmental
Management division. In this role, he strategized how to get Monsanto’s
GMO crops into Africa, working closely with the Bill and Melinda Gates
Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation. He also worked closely with
the Bush Administration, and is the point man in helping an elite
agenda to spread GMO seeds and biotech dependence around the world.

You
guessed it – now he is back at the FDA in a new position the Obama
Administration created – Senior
Advisor to the Commissioner, working primarily on issues of food
safety! “I am pleased to welcome Mike Taylor back to the FDA,”
Commissioner of Food and Drugs Margaret A. Hamburg, M.D., said in announcing
Taylor’s appointment. “His expertise and leadership on food
safety issues will help the agency to develop and implement the prevention
based strategy we need to ensure the safety of the food we eat.”

As
Monsanto, in anti-competitive collusion
with Dow, takes their new GMO toxic and mutated corn to market,
stacked with eight genes, it should come as no surprise that absolutely
no safety testing is being required by the FDA. Never before have there
been eight genes altered simultaneously within the cells of food. One
gene is bad enough. Three is horrendous. But eight?

The
fact that the FDA is not requiring extensive safety testing by independent
sources of this highly unpredictable and dangerous technology is unthinkable.
It is a grim day when the fox is in charge of the henhouse.

There
Is No Good Reason for Monsanto’s GMOs

If
you listen to Monsanto and their business cohorts such as Cargill,
they state they are trying to feed the world. In reality, the world
could eliminate Monsanto’s mutated food tomorrow and it would
be a better place. It could also do without Cargill acting as an unregulated
food banker, profiting on the manipulation of food sales at the
expense of farmers in a way that is every bit as bad as the worst of
Wall Street. There is no need for Monsanto’s
GMO mutated seeds. They offer no advantages. It is an industry being
propped up by unelected bureaucrats and elected officials on the receiving
end of Monsanto’s multi-million dollar lobbying operation.

Michael
Taylor is one example of corporate
crony influence, there are many
others. The USDA is profiting from Monsanto’s seeds that cannot
be used the next growing season (the Terminator
aspect of the problem). The EPA’s failure to regulate the amounts
of Roundup Ready used on food is yet another scandal. It’s all
about profits and control – while undermining the world’s
farmers and the biodiversity and sustainability of crops.

Contrary
to the Monsanto and Cargill propaganda, GMO technology does not increase
crop yields, as has been fully documented in the Union of Concerned
Scientists report titled Failure
to Yield. And GMO crops are very bad for the carbon
footprint.

The
fact that the Obama
administration is actively forwarding Monsanto’s efforts should
be a grave
concern to every American. Of course, the last 16 years of Clinton
and Bush also did everything in their power to help Monsanto. No wonder
Americans are fed up. Politicians in both parties are beholden to the
golden idol, not the best health interests of its citizens.

Take
Back Our Food – Join the Fight

We
the people can have a huge impact and we can change this serious threat
to human health. Don’t buy GMOs food. GMOs permeate corn and soy
products, beet
sugar is now mutated, and wheat is next in line. If you aren’t
sure how to avoid GMO foods and brands then follow the advice given
on Jeffrey Smith’s Non-GMO
shopping guide. Demand from your political representatives that
all GMO food be labeled as containing GMOs. This isn’t just a
political issue – this is about your personal health and the future
of food.

Byron
J. Richards, Board-Certified Clinical Nutritionist, nationally-renowned
nutrition
expert, and founder of Wellness
Resources is a leader in advocating the value of dietary
supplements as a vital tool to maintain health. He is an outspoken
critic of government and Big Pharma efforts to deny access to natural
health products and has written extensively on the life-shortening and
health-damaging failures of the sickness
industry.

A 2008 Austrian government
study showed that feeding GMO corn to mice for multiple generations resulted
in fertility issues and weakened kidneys, as well as changes in metabolic
pathways involved with inflammation, cholesterol, and protein. Here is
a link to the 105 page report.